Telegram bot that posts new hot stories from Hacker News to telegram channel
Bot runs on Google App Engine
Bot uses Hacker News API
It loads top stories every 10 minutes and posts any story that reached 100+ score(adjusted for inflation)
Bot uses Telegram Bot API to post messages to the telegram channel with sendMessage request
Bot used bit.ly and goo.gl for url shortening, but now it uses internal shortener
- Clone this project
- Run
pip install -r requirements.txt -t lib/
to install dependencies - Download and install Google Cloud SDK
- Register your app in Google Cloud console
- Register your bot via BotFather
- Rename
sample_app.yaml
toapp.yaml
and- replace
yourappid
with your App engine app id - replace
YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN
with your bot token
- replace
- Possibly you'll want to create your own channel and your bot as an admin. Also change
@hacker_news_feed
indatabase.py
to your channel id - Run
gcloud app deploy app.yaml --project [YOUR_PROJECT_NAME]
in the project folder - Run
gcloud app deploy cron.yaml --project [YOUR_PROJECT_NAME]
in the project folder
To run server locally you can use dev_appserver.py
:
dev_appserver.py .